1705

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
July 31: The Battle of Warsaw between rival factions for control of Poland.
1705 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1705
MDCCV
Ab urbe condita2458
Armenian calendar1154
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԴ
Assyrian calendar6455
Balinese saka calendar1626–1627
Bengali calendar1112
Berber calendar2655
English Regnal yearAnn. 1 – 4 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2249
Burmese calendar1067
Byzantine calendar7213–7214
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4402 or 4195
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
4403 or 4196
Coptic calendar1421–1422
Discordian calendar2871
Ethiopian calendar1697–1698
Hebrew calendar5465–5466
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1761–1762
 - Shaka Samvat1626–1627
 - Kali Yuga4805–4806
Holocene calendar11705
Igbo calendar705–706
Iranian calendar1083–1084
Islamic calendar1116–1117
Japanese calendarHōei 2
(宝永2年)
Javanese calendar1628–1629
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4038
Minguo calendar207 before ROC
民前207年
Nanakshahi calendar237
Thai solar calendar2247–2248
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
1831 or 1450 or 678
    — to —
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
1832 or 1451 or 679

1705 (MDCCV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1705th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 705th year of the 2nd millennium, the 5th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1705, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

October–December[edit]

Date unknown[edit]

  • Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England; it is completed in 1724.
  • Taichung City, Taiwan is founded as the village of Dadun.
  • With the interest paid from daimyō loans, the Konoike buy a tract of ponds and swampland, turn the land into rice paddies, and settle 480 households numbering perhaps 2,880 peasants on the land.
  • The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country, and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces.


Births[edit]

Charles Chauncy (1705–1787) born 1 January
Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet) born 21 January
Peter Artedi born 27 February
Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach born 31 March
William Cookworthy born 12 April
António José da Silva born 8 May
Carl Marcus Tuscher born 1 June
Thomas Birch born 23 November

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

October–December[edit]

Deaths[edit]

John Ray died 17 January
Philipp Spener died 5 February
Titus Oates died 13 July
Maria Hueber died 31 July
Albert Angell died 13 September
Emeric Thököly died 13 September
Ninon de l'Enclos died 17 October

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

October–December[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lang, Paul Henry (1996). George Frideric Handel. New York: Dover Publications. p. 35. ISBN 0-486-29227-4.
  2. ^ G. W. T. Ormond, Fletcher of Saltoun (Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1897) p. 107
  3. ^ "Historical Events for Year 1705 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  4. ^ "Clement XIV | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved October 1, 2020.